On November 9/911:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091109/oddities/entertainment_film_us_space_offbeat

fox article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568506,00.html

total low blow
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/06oct_maya.htm

The Fall of the Maya: "They Did it to Themselves"

Pick a lane NASA !

from the P!nk thread >>>

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The Geomagnetic Apocalypse — And How to Stop It

For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy, not scientists. But that’s exactly what a group of NASA-assembled researchers described in a chilling report issued earlier this year on the destructive potential of solar storms.

Entitled “Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts,” it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy that could disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, overwhelming high-voltage transformers with vast electrical currents and short-circuiting energy grids. Such a catastrophe would cost the United States “$1 trillion to $2 trillion in the first year,” concluded the panel, and “full recovery could take four to 10 years.” That would, of course, be just a fraction of global damages.
Needless to say, shorting out the electrical grid would cause major disruptions to developed nations and their economies.

Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth’s geomagnetic shield, meaning we’ll have less protection than usual from the solar flares.
The report received relatively little attention, perhaps because of 2012’s supernatural connotations. Mayan astronomers supposedly predicted that 2012 would mark the calamitous “birth of a new era.”

But the report is credible enough that some scientists and engineers are beginning to take the electromagnetic threat seriously. According to Lawrence Joseph, author of “Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization’s End,” “I’ve been following this topic for almost five years, and it wasn’t until the report came out that this really began to
freak me out.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/storms2012/
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>>>>> From Susan Joy Rennison's website >>>>>
Space Weather is now getting extreme!
November 2009

""Even though the Sun is quiet after historic blasts during solar cycle 23, Earth is still experiencing extreme Space Weather events. There are now regular blasts from gamma-ray sources and extreme events attributed to mystery objects known as Magnetars (a type of neutron star), which are the most magnetic celestial objects in the whole universe. The magnetar, referred to as the soft-gamma-ray repeater SGR J1550-5418, started with modest eruptions on 3 October 2008 and appeared to settle down, but on 21st-22nd January 2009, it roared back to life with a more intense round of flares. There are only 6 objects of this type that have been identified and scientists jokingly refer to the energetic blasts as "solar flares on steroids", but the impact is no joke. In 1/10 of a second, this type of a neutron star or magnetar, can release as much energy as the Sun would in 100,000 years. For more info see, Gamma-Ray Fireworks Now Erupting from Rare Stellar Object

No wonder the magnetosphere has three holes already and are not healing". Hmmm.... maybe the Mayan prediction that we are facing a New Age dominated by space and the ether is coming true! ""